Data · dataset · 2026
Akan–English Maternal Health Parallel Corpus
Listed in ScienceDB
This dataset contains a curated bilingual parallel corpus developed to support domain-specific neural machine translation (NMT) for maternal health communication between Akan and English.
Description
The corpus was constructed to address the scarcity of healthcare-specific parallel data for low-resource African languages, particularly Akan.The dataset comprises 12,000 English–Akan parallel sentence pairs from maternal health content covering prenatal and postnatal care domains.
Maternal health topics represented include antenatal care, childbirth preparation, maternal mental health, nutrition, vaccination, medication use, lifestyle behaviors, preventive medicine, personal hygiene, and common pregnancy-related conditions. The corpus also contains 32.313 hours of Akan audio recordings corresponding to the 12,000 sentences.This corpus was developed as part of the Ɔbaa Panin Project, which seeks to build a conversational maternal health chatbot in Akan.
Links
Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.32698 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from scidb cn
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record scidb.cn/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=10.57760%2… ↗
metadata API · from scidb cn
Topics
- From keywords
- Computer Science & AI · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Humanities · Life Sciences · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Audio 75% · Corpus linguistics 76%
Provenance · 1 source records, 13 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ScienceDB | 10.57760/sciencedb.32698 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:470404 | enrichment · scidb cn | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (76%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:audio | enrichment · scidb cn | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| description | source · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license | source · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/rights |
| publication_date | source · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · scidb cn | connector:scidb_cn@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |